How to Make a Hobo Dinner

Hot dogs and hamburgers are staples in the camp world. But cooking meat on a stick can grow tiresome and many fire pits are too big to accommodate grills—plus, both options raise the risk of your dinner accidentally ending up in the fire.

Our vote for best camp dinner is the ever-classic hobo dinner, made by simply stuffing a bunch of raw ingredients (like chopped steak and vegetables) into a tinfoil roll and placing it in your fire's coals for 20 minutes or so.

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Best of all, the hands-off method leaves plenty of time for other tasks, like enjoying some nice cold beverages with your buddies. And once the meal has sufficiently cooked, it can be passed around and enjoyed in the foil container it cooked in. Just try and make a meal that's easier to cook at the campsite!

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